Appwrite VS LocalStack

Flutter plays well with modern backend solutions like Firebase, Supabase, AWS Amplify, Appwrite, and PocketBase. This gives you a variety of options to choose from whether you are an indie developer, startup, established company, agency, or enterprise.

5. Appwrite

GitHub https://github.com/appwrite/appwrite GitHub Star 43.6k GitHub Fork 3.9k GitHub Issue 607 GitHub Pull Request 152 GitHub Contributor 338 Open Source License BSD-3-Clause Official Website https://appwrite.io/ Documentation https://appwrite.io/docs

Appwrite also allows you to manage your application's backend services through a simple and intuitive dashboard, making it easy to monitor and control your resources.

Appwrite is a comprehensive Backend as a Service (BaaS) platform designed to help developers build and scale applications quickly and efficiently. Whether you're a solo indie hacker or part of a growing startup, Appwrite provides the essential features you need—database management, authentication, storage, and cloud functions—all in one unified platform.

Serverless apps or apps without a backend or app that controls your backend, all are the same and for frontend and backend devs Firebase and Supabase are quite useful and trending along with other serverless databases such as Appwrite and  PocketBase

Appwrite - for authenticating users, as well as saving and retrieving product details.

If you haven't tried Appwrite, make sure you give it a spin. It's a open source backend that packs authentication, databases, storage, serverless functions, and all kinds of utilities in a neat API. Appwrite can be self-hosted, or you can use Appwrite Cloud starting with a generous free plan.

What is Appwrite? Appwrite is an open-source backend server that abstracts the complexity of backend development, allowing developers to focus on building their applications. It provides a wide range of services including databases, storage, functions, and authentication, all designed to work seamlessly together. This integration simplifies the development process, reducing the need for extensive configuration and integration work.

LocalStack is a cloud service emulator that runs in a single container on your laptop or in your CI environment. With LocalStack, you can run your AWS applications or Lambdas entirely on your local machine without connecting to a remote cloud provider! Whether you are testing complex CDK applications or Terraform configurations, or just beginning to learn about AWS services, LocalStack helps speed up and simplify your testing and development workflow.

With over 52,000 stars and 520+ contributors, LocalStack is an open-source tool that emulates a wide range of AWS services on a local machine. It's primarily used for testing and development purposes, allowing developers to run applications locally without needing to interact with the actual AWS cloud.

LocalStack GitHub: localstack-github

> Good luck finding the consumer when you need to modify the producer

It sounds like you are describing a producer that updates consumers using HTTP calls. That pushes a lot of complexity to the producer and the team that has to sync up with all of the other teams involved.

> Let’s use SNS/SQS because why not. Good luck reproducing producers and consumers locally in your machine

At work we just have localstack from a shared repo running in the background. I almost forget that it's there until I need to "git pull" if another team has added a new queue.

https://github.com/localstack/localstack

> Observability. Of rather the lack of it. It’s never out of the box, and so usually nobody cares about it until an incident happens

I think it depends on what type of framework you use. At work we use a trace-id field when making HTTP calls or sending a message. This enables us to easily search logs and see the flow between systems.

Later you can use any S3 compatible storage because the code I write will still work, but for testing purposes on my local machine, I will use LocalStack:

Acesse o site da LocalStack e faça login.

To give this a slightly different spin:

--> "The best optimization is simply not spinning things up."

At least for local development and testing, as made possible by LocalStack (https://localstack.cloud), among other local testing solutions and emulators.

We've seen so many teams fall into the trap of "someone forgot to shut down dev resource X for a week and now we've racked up a $$$ bill on AWS".

What is everyone's strategy to avoid this kind of situation? Tools like `aws-nuke` (https://github.com/rebuy-de/aws-nuke) are awesome (!) to clean up unused resources, but frankly they should not be necessary in the first place.

(For others who hadn't heard of it: localstack is